Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI Embedded session at Power Platform Summit Europe: What’s new in Power BI Embedded

Join the Power BI Embedded team at the Power Platform Summit Europe for a 2-hour session. During the session, we will cover the newest features and capabilities in Power BI Embedded such as: Control all visual menu actions programmatically – Options and Context Menus APIs has been extended to provide full control for each visual …

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Update on the New Workspace Experiences Preview Including GA Timeline

We launched the public preview of new workspace experiences in August 2018 to enable Power BI workspace admins to use security groups to manage access to workspaces, enable BI teams to create workspaces without needing to create an Office 365 Group, and to provide granular workspace roles to make giving access to workspaces easier. At …

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Power BI Service and Mobile February 2019 Feature Summary

February was yet another exciting and busy month for Power BI, as we rolled out many features that were highly requested by our customers and community. Here’s a recap of all the announcements: Updates to the Premium Capacity Metrics app Export to PDF and filtered export for Power BI reports On-demand email subscriptions Bulk operations …

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BI Bake-Off at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2019

Today we presented at the 5th annual Gartner BI Bake Off session at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida and we are very excited to share the report with everyone. The topic this year is loneliness data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist Same as last year, a little bit of background: …

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On-premises data gateway March update is now available

We are happy to announce that we have just released the March update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.2.52) Note: The latest March build number is now 3000.2.52(was previously 3000.2.47). In this latest release, we fixed a bug which was causing some of the scheduled refreshes via the gateway to intermittently fail with timeout …

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Microsoft at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL

Next week, 4,000+ data and analytics leaders will gather in Orlando, Florida for the 2019 Gartner Data and Analytics Summit. Microsoft is very excited to sponsor this event and bring some of our best experts to meet with attendees to discuss how to drive data and analytics into the core of your business. We will …

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Join our Research Panel

We’re looking for business professionals who use Microsoft Power BI and/or manage Power BI accounts to join our research panel.

Power BI Desktop March 2019 Feature Summary

This month we have a lot of exciting announcements. Two of our most requested features on UserVoice are releasing this month, heat maps and single select slicers. Additionally, we are making our complete facelift of the modeling view generally available. New DAX functions and improvements to existing features, such as buttons and the selection pane, round out this update.

Easy access to AI in Power BI (Preview)

With sophisticated models and scalable compute, Artificial Intelligence becomes a realistic tool for data analysts. Power BI helps you get insights from your data. Now, with access to a set of models from Azure Cognitive Services and your custom models in Azure ML, you can easily enrich those insights with AI. Cognitive services in Power BI gives you access …

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3/15 Webinar: Using App-only Authentication with Power BI Embedding

In this live event Microsoft Power Platform MVP, Ted Pattison, will teach you how to leverage the new app-only authentication support currently in preview for Power BI embedding and the Power BI Service API. Ted will also discuss emerging best practices with Microsoft’s App-Owns-Data model and explain why you should migrate away from older application …

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